On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 1:59:01 AM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> I want to launch this rocket with an expensive satellite on top. I know >> >> it's safe as the code is written in ADA. Whoops :( > > > So Python would have been a better choice? Yeah, right. If you know anything > about that rocket mishap, you should know that Ada was not the source of the > problem. Ada won't keep airplane wings from breaking either, by the way. It's > not magic.
Frankly, I don't think the language much matters. It's all down to the skill of the programmers and testers. Ada wasn't the source of the problem unless Ada has a bug in it... which is going to be true of pretty much any language. Maybe Python would be a better choice, maybe not; but let me tell you this, if the choice of language means the difference between testable in three months and testable code in three years, I'm going for the former. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
